Imagining sculpture : a short conjectural history / Stanley Abe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abe, Stanley K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture.

Sculpture--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Pictorial works

Physical Description:

vii, 397 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Munich, Germany : Hirmer Verlag, [2022]

Summary:

"Sculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the mind's eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China statues, stele and other figural objects were made for millennia but not valued or collected as Sculpture. There was no Sculpture in China. Imagining Sculpture is the story of this something that did not exist. Imagining Sculpture is a series of short vignettes, historical and fictional. Travelers, scholars, officials, collectors, and antiquarians encounter statues, figures, and effigies in China, Japan, England, Germany, France, Italy, and the United States from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. Imagining Sculpture is visual, cinematic and sumptuous--told with rare photographs, paintings, sketches, letters and ephemera. With little text, the argument is made by the images. Imagining Sculpture offers a new kind of visual narrative and offers a radically different way of seeing and knowing"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Book one. The idea ; The gift ; Ruins ; From Rome ; The antiquarian ; As good as painting ; China in white ; The west

Book two. Export ; Antiquity ; Treasures ; Collecting ; Patrimony ; From China ; Effigy ; Contorted

Book three. Zaoxiang ; Original ; Antiquities shop ; Looking east ; Turning west ; Buddhist collector ; Chinese sculpture

Book four. Becoming a scholar ; Tenshin's dream ; Gathering treasures ; Suicide dreams ; Elgin's hand ; Arrival.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783777437583

3777437581

OCLC:

1285695955

Publisher Number:

9783777437583